NEWTOWN -- Marie Hayes will present a program on Victorian gardening Tuesday at 1 p.m. in Cyrenius H. Booth Library, 25 Main St. 
Hayes' slide-show presentation depicts American gardening  from 1836 to 1901 at such places as the Harriet Beecher Stowe house in  Hartford, the Vanderbilt mansion in Hyde Park, N.Y., and Mohonk Mountain  House in New Paltz, N.Y. 
A master gardener and  former head gardener at White Flower Farm in Litchfield, Hayes has  specialized in perennial borders and cutting gardens for 25 years. 
She is a member of the Hartford Landscape Design Council and provides  garden consultation and customized floral designs through her business,  Gardens Unlimited. 
She has spoken about Victorian gardening  and other horticultural subjects to historical societies, garden clubs  and botanical gardens throughout New York, Florida, Delaware and  Connecticut. 
She created and installed a garden along the Nile River in Luxor, Egypt. 
The lecture, sponsored by the Garden Club of Newtown, is free and open  to the public. Registration is not required. For more information, call  203-512-7320.  
In case of bad weather, the talk will be canceled if Newtown public schools are closed Tuesday.
 
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